Hi folks
I'm new here and new to Guild basses in general. I have been collecting Gibsons for a couple of years now (I have 3 (and a half if you count the Epiphone)) but I've always had a yearning for a Guild B series bass. I really liked the unusual body shape, the traditional build values, the fat single coils. However, I was only aware of the B301/302. Being 20 fret passive basses, they didn't really add much to my collection as I have something similar with my Gibson G-3 (20 frets, passive, single coils (albeit 3 of them)). Then I discovered the existence of the B401/402. Now that's different, I thought to myself. I get the body shape, early active electronics (like ones you can actually repair if they go wrong) and a 22 fret neck. Then I found out that there were only something like 335 ever made. I figured it would take a while to obtain one. Happily, one popped up on eBay not long after this revelation so I decided to pounce. As usual, I've done it the wrong way round and bought the bass first then looked around for ways to recoup the cost - well, that's what credit cards are for eh?
Enough blab, it arrived yesterday and here are some rubbish mobile phone pics (hopefully better ones to come post clean up):
It is serial BD100313 making it a 1981 model (and one of the last). It needs a good clean, an airing (smells a bit like an old people's home!), new strings and a setup, but even with the dead, flappy strings on it I can hear good things.
I'm looking forward to getting to know it better, and I thought I'd say thanks for all the info on 401/402 that I found on here which helped me decide to go for it.
I'm new here and new to Guild basses in general. I have been collecting Gibsons for a couple of years now (I have 3 (and a half if you count the Epiphone)) but I've always had a yearning for a Guild B series bass. I really liked the unusual body shape, the traditional build values, the fat single coils. However, I was only aware of the B301/302. Being 20 fret passive basses, they didn't really add much to my collection as I have something similar with my Gibson G-3 (20 frets, passive, single coils (albeit 3 of them)). Then I discovered the existence of the B401/402. Now that's different, I thought to myself. I get the body shape, early active electronics (like ones you can actually repair if they go wrong) and a 22 fret neck. Then I found out that there were only something like 335 ever made. I figured it would take a while to obtain one. Happily, one popped up on eBay not long after this revelation so I decided to pounce. As usual, I've done it the wrong way round and bought the bass first then looked around for ways to recoup the cost - well, that's what credit cards are for eh?
Enough blab, it arrived yesterday and here are some rubbish mobile phone pics (hopefully better ones to come post clean up):
It is serial BD100313 making it a 1981 model (and one of the last). It needs a good clean, an airing (smells a bit like an old people's home!), new strings and a setup, but even with the dead, flappy strings on it I can hear good things.
I'm looking forward to getting to know it better, and I thought I'd say thanks for all the info on 401/402 that I found on here which helped me decide to go for it.
